I happened across a website with a little something for everyone:
For Squawk: Field Guide to Dumb Birds of North America
For SuperDave, just a reminder as you put together those awesome meals: Eating People is Wrong. Bambi is okay. There’s also a book on eating gifted kids. I’m telling you right now, just keep any type of kids off of the menu, okay? Well, maybe baby goats are okay…
For me: Outwitting Squirrels 101. I have given up growing squash not just because those squash vine borers almost drove me to a nervous breakdown, but also because Fatso Squirrel was helping himself to my produce before it was ripe enough to pick. Dang Fatso.
Here’s one for Texpat: Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification. It just wouldn’t do for him to confuse a feral western North America shopping cart with one of his less exotic local shopping carts running loose.
And in memory of Hammie, there’s even a Florida Man coloring book.
For those of us who’ve been through knee surgery: This Knee Recovery Coloring Book
I sense a few prank gifts in this selection.
Watch the video of this unborn baby smiling at his father’s voice and tell me that abortion isn’t evil. I dare ya’.
That special place in Hell is getting bigger by the day.
More aliens landing on Texas beaches:
Bristle worms – really bad juju
I am deleting tons of pictures from the old Hambone site. They were not attached to any post so out they go. That may be what caused the “shut down”.
This is for bsue54.
I found this video out of Fort Worth on the Cool First, Transport Later method for first responders.
I had a long talk with NASA Sis this afternoon. She’d been texting the family about her flare with her autoimmune disease after her appendectomy. We discussed the health benefits of fasting and of the keto diet, especially carnivore. Doing any of those things will help bring down the inflammation in her body. I advised her to consult with her doctor, since she’s on meds ‘n stuff. She mentioned that she’s heard from other folks with autoimmune diseases how keto/carnivore have helped them. She said my phone call may be the sign she needed to start looking into it. I… Read more »
Whatever was causing the “Comments closed!” message is gone now, I guess.
I was being blocked from making comments. Let’s see if this works now.
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Richard Petty says the wine is fine.
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How not to kill an overheated patient. Is this standard practice in Texas ? It should be because over 9,000 high school athletes in the US are treated for overheating every year. But what Giordano didn’t know is that when a patient is overheated, the national recommendation is not to load the patient and rush them to the hospital. It’s a technique called “Cool First, Transport Second.” In that process, a patient’s body temperature is brought back down before they are transported to the hospital. It can be lifesaving. However, just 11 states require ambulance services to follow that protocol. and,… Read more »
Decided to take the day off and take in the NASCAR race in Michigan but they are in rain delay – second one now. I did double check and I do not have the Astro channel so back to crime stories guess.
I’m not a wine drinker but I suddenly have an urge for a
bottleglass or two. Oh wait, never mind I have a few silver cans still in the fridge.Mendoza produces some of the finest wines anywhere. It is also a spectacularly beautiful place. I never made it there when I was in Argentina, but the men told me besides great wines, the most beautiful women in South America come from Mendoza. My friend in Buenos Aires warned me if I went there I would never leave.
Take a look at the amazing Piatelli Winery here in the foothills of the Andes.
A photo of the Agua de Piedras vineyard
This has been my wine of choice for the last year or so. I pay $13.99 for a single bottle at the Maywood Market or $14.99 at the liquor store. It is the best Malbec I have found for $15 or less. I’ve had much more expensive wines that were a real disappointment and left me feeling ripped off.
Piatelli Malbec & Tannat
This Malbec is also very good at $14.99.
Agua de Piedras from Mendoza Argentina.
I am reposting this because it is so good in case anyone may have missed it. Devouring Democracy: The Left Embodies the Archetype of Female PredationThe archetype of female predation is the devouring mother. Rather than providing nurture and care to her children, this mother weaponizes her children’s dependent status, using it as a mechanism to increase her power. Those under the care of the devouring mother are perpetual infants, never moving out of a state of dependence on their caregiver who shields the child from external threats while perpetrating unspeakable harm within the “safe space” of the mother/child relationship.The… Read more »
From the Jessica Reed Kraus Substack piece on Epstein’s cellmate. I figured the Feds would disappear this guy. I’m surprised they haven’t already. From my 9:35 AM link.
Guy directly across from me chooses to mow his yard up and down rather than around, which is fine but his lines are slightly slanted, not square to the house with a bit of a curve right in the center, each lane identical. Hurts my OCD bad. They are renters and I should be happy he keeps it mowed which he does. On a little less than an acre lot he nursed an old rider mower that something broke on it just about every time he cut it. If he couldn’t get it going he drug out the old push… Read more »
Who we need as governor.
who we have as governor.
Picking my wife up at the airport went much smoother than I expected, all the construction going on things are chaos. She told me should was landing at terminal B. Every flight tracker out there said the flight was landing at E, baggage claim C. So which would it be, terminal B, E or C? I chose to listen to the flight status page. Oh and at terminal C baggage claim level there are two sides of the building you can pick up and you are not allowed to go slowly looking for your pickup much less stop and you… Read more »
Well mama is back home and in bed nursing her rib age from a fall. She is happy, I am happy and the dog is really happy things are back to normal.
Oh, and, only five trips around the IAH terminals before showed up outside baggage claim. I think that is a record. I think IAH is terminally under construction, they just can’t quit.
1) Yo uncklo Hoover.
i have a $300 vacuum cleaner. I’m not quite hoi polloi enough yet to own a Dyson. I need to buy more Geritol stock.;)
2) next time I log in I’m going to try rubbing my head and stomach in opposite directions and at the same time to see if it helps.
yo squawka Bruddah
best David Lee Roth quote.
“The reason the critics all like Elvis Costello better than me is because they all look like Elvis Costello.”
runner up
“Sam (Sammy Hagar) throws a party. I am the party”
A friend called and their water heater just cratered. They called four plumbers and the going rate for a 50 gallon gas water heater in this area is now $4,000. When I came here the top rate $1,400 from the gas company. If I were in better shape physically, I would go do the tank for them. PSE&G, the local gas utility is now charging $4,200 so all the private plumbing cos. are charging $3,900 to $4,000. New Jersey now requires a water pressure regulator and an automatic flood prevention water shutoff since virtually every unit in NJ is in… Read more »
I remember being angry about the hack book, Lies My Teacher Told Me, in the 1990s. The author had every right to criticize the popular, but often mediocre history books used in junior high and high schools in America. However, being an old Leftist he couldn’t resist turning it into an indoctrination project instead of a more informative and fair assessment of history. Wilfred Reilly, Kentucky State history prof has decided to remedy the situation and save the Truth. Give all the high school and college students you know a copy. In fact, many Americans could use one. Lies My… Read more »
Unfortunately, this is published at National Review so it won’t get near the exposure it once would have before they ruined the site. However, it is worth the read. Walz is worse than anybody thinks. Top Ten Reason Tim Walz Stinks Governor Tim Walz — along with the progressive faction he represents in Minnesota politics — is quite directly the reason my family moved out of the state. (They now happily reside in the free land of Florida.) Upon Walz’s nomination to VP candidate, I knew I would have some stories to share. Beyond his obscene financial mismanagement — which our… Read more »
Epstein’s cellmate at my 9:35 AM link:
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni sponsored this survey of 3,000 students across the country. “If the people no longer care to understand their government, if they are ignorant of its history and its institutions, a government like ours cannot long stand, according to America’s Founders and later heroes like Lincoln,” Jackson told The Fix.Additionally, 37 percent of the students correctly identified the current chief justice of the Supreme Court, but 32 percent responded they were “not sure.” Less than one-third (31 percent) were able to identify James Madison as the Father of the Constitution, with almost half (44 percent)… Read more »
Texpat The login problem is on your end. I see where you logged successfully in 18 times in a row. So I have to ask, what gave you changed on your end? Did you turn off some setting, add some anti-virus program, anti-adware program? Are you holding your tongue just right while rubbing your stomach and patting your head? I want you to clear your history cache then—— Clearing your system cache: Here’s how to access the system cache files on Mac: Open Finder, click Go menu, and select Go to Folder. Type ~/Library/Caches/ in the window and click Go.… Read more »
This is a shocking report on how utterly corrupt our Department of Justice has become under Holder and Garland. The subornation of perjury is a felony with fines and imprisonment of five years in US federal courts. It also comes with disbarment for attorneys. The audio file is a recording of a June 6 telephonic interview that Jessica did with Nick Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate in the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center. Tartaglione was recounting some of his conversations with Epstein.As Tartaglione tells it, Epstein returned to their shared cell after a meeting with the federal prosecutors. He told his… Read more »
Shannon
I would never be caught with such a cheap vacuum cleaner. You obviously do not know who you are dealing with.
And yes, Shannon Janine Turner is HOT! 😀
Shannon mentioned that goofy TV show, Northern Exposure a while back so we’ve been watching it from the beginning and I noticed the “N” number (N8326A) on Maggie’s old Cessna 170 so I looked it up. It is of course still flying and is now owned by Raccoon Aviation out of San Antonio. It even has the original paint scheme on it. When the show was filmed it was owned by a guy in Portland Oregon. BTW; the Cessna 170B was manufactured in 1952 and they first came out in 1948. Also if I remember right the show was filmed… Read more »
I’m fixin’ sausage, eggs, grits N biscuits for breakfast this morning. Oh and for my 5 AM coffee I had Beach Blast Coconut Rum Cream left over from the beach trip. Just a shot for flavor so the alcohol content was negligible. 😉
I saw an ad yesterday for a farm that touted selling a quarter cow for about $4.99/lb. Their cattle are grass fed but grain finished, still better than grain fed. I don’t have room for that much meat, but as I eat down my freezer, it’s something to consider. I thought carnivore would be expensive, but actually, it’s not. I don’t eat that much at one sitting, for starters. I still have to make veggies ‘n stuff for Hubby, but if all I buy is meat and animal products, I’m not buying all the other stuff. Shopping would be a… Read more »
Going carnivore has gotten my blood sugar under control. I cheated with a handful of raspberries (which were on sale) the other day, and it showed up in the numbers.
Fortunately, there are lots of recipes that will allow me to stick to the diet. I don’t feel deprived, though I do wander down memory lane to my Daddy’s lasagna….but if I get off my butt I can replicate it properly and only wander with one foot off the carnivore path….
Our downstairs floors are concrete with a rolled pattern. It wasn’t until we moved in that I realized the “seams” between the “stones” was too deep for our vacuum to clean easily. They don’t look that deep, except to our vacuum cleaner. Using the broom was the only way to clean that dirt, and sweeping is hard on my back (especially this floor). I began my search for another vacuum cleaner, and found a Kenmore at a garage sale for $15. It was a canister, which I wanted, so I figgered all I’d lose was $15 if it didn’t work.… Read more »
From the Crossword; Fake Ally, answer;
Frenemy /frĕn′ə-mē/
noun
I don’t think I’ve heard of that one before. The other F words were, Frescos, Fretsome, Freckle, Freight and Freshmen.
Mornin’ Gang
Here’s hoping that my 37 year-old Oreck XL keeps on keeping on.
We were young and dumb and fell for a Rainbow vacuum cleaner. I don’t remember the cost but it was up there, it was a good one, would do just about anything it paint your toenails but that water tank had to be emptied or else. Got left stored full of water one too many times and it locked up from the corrosion.
I mean, I know that Squawk has a $600 vacuum cleaner.
But who else?
i stopped to watch the QVC channel for the first time in…..forever.
They are selling a really cheesey Dyson vacuum cleaner for $600.
SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS.
SIX HUNDRED FRIKKIN DOLLARS.
i have only one question….
Besides Doctor phil and Squawk, who here owns a $600 vacuum cleaner?
We have given up driving ourselves to Houston Intergalactic
Airport and find that a limo ride going there and coming home is far better than having our car sit in a garage or worse in an open lot for however many days we’re gone. It is well worth the expense.
Trump recruits Tulsi for debate prep.
Insert Smiley Face here.
Well, they DO understand what a wall does, after all.
I’m quite envious of those of you who get to watch the Astros on television.
GJT I don’t get to hear or watch many Astro games but I just happened to do so this evening after church. Biggio was a guest on the radio broadcast because Ken Caminiti was inducted into the Astros Hall of Fame last nite. Pretty interesting to hear that he and Camie came up thru the organization and made The Show within a year of each other…two kids joining a team with a buncha 35 year-old veterans. Bidge was of course catching at that time…said he had the best seat in the house watching Camie play 3rd. Pretty special stories to… Read more »
Hey Miss BSue
How bout them Astros?
Elvis Week has wrapped up in Memphis so my Sweetie will be returning home in the morning. Candlelight was couple days ago. Earlier this week she was walking on the sidewalks in the pool area behind the hotel and just as she was stepping onto the grass a sprinkler head popped up causing her to trip and fall. Racked her ribs pretty good so she has been suffering. Though she took her own car to the airport, the way construction is at the terminal it is quite a walk to the shuttles to the car lots and she just can’t… Read more »